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I'm Angela Davis, a PNW native, mom of lots of kids, and I love saving money. I'm here to help you live well on a budget by making every penny count. You'll find deals at your local stores, ways to save online, recipes, and frugal living tips and inspiration.

Swagbucks is a search engine powered by Google and Ask.com. The thing that makes it unique is that every so often you win one, three, five or ten “swagbucks” when you search the internet. You accumulate these swagbucks and redeem them for gift cards or other exclusive products. For instance, you can redeem 130 swagbucks and get a $10 Starbucks gift card. 45 swagbucks gets you a $5 Amazon gift card. And there’s virtually no work involved. I just installed the Swagbucks toolbar from the website. Super easy. With normal searching, you can earn a free gift card in a month or two.

But this is where it gets fun. If you refer others to Swagbucks, you earn swagbucks when they win too. I am now up to over 4000 swagbucks and have enough to get over $440 in Amazon gift cards! It’s a great way to get stuff we need or want without using money from our budget.

Swagbucks is raising the bar and is offering an exclusive code for Frugal Living NW readers!

Use the code FRUGALLIVINGCODE when you register (the code is case sensitive, so make sure you use all caps or just cut & paste it). This code will get you 3 swagbucks in addition to the 3 you receive upon registration. Use this code and you will be on your way to free stuff!

This code is valid for new members only and will expire at midnight on June 16th (Pacific time).

So, what are you waiting for? Start the free stuff rolling! Go to Swagbucks and start searching!

I joined swagbucks and downloaded the toolbar a few days ago. I have tried to use it, but it is not a good search engine, imo. This makes me less inspired to use it. I search with it, then close it out, and search with google instead! Do people actually find it useful?